Natasha Coulis: writer, designer, and educator on agency and clear thinking

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These selected essays and poems explore power, identity, and norms. They also model resistance to cultural pressure for women to be polite, sweet, self-sacrificing, and obedient.

SELF-PUBLISHED

CULTURAL CRITICISM

WHY STAY-AT-HOME MOMS NEED A LABOUR CONTRACT

Answering objections to my viral TikTok video with half a million views

North American motherhood is designed to bankrupt women

Fundamentalism as an immoral application of good intentions

The matriarchal rewrite of feminine biology

In response to transphobic rhetoric

The argument was never about safety

PUBLISHED WORKS

ESSAYS


Published October 7, 2019 in The Startup


Published October 18, 2019 in The Startup


Published March 12, 2021 in An Injustice!

PUBLISHED WORKS

POETRY

OLD MAN WINTER

When winter becomes the only
season in a marriage


First published in 40 Below V.2 Anthology

SHE WAS ONLY SEVEN

Landscape as witness to a child's sexual assault


First published in Fire in the Pasture

REUNION: POETRY SEC, A-D

People forbidden to union,
as books


First published in Fire in the Pasture

THE MARRIAGE BED II:
ROLE REVERSALS

How a queer wife would husband

First published in Fire in the Pasture

THE MAKING OF EVE

A young man sees through his young lover's mask, loves her in micro detail

First published in Fire in the Pasture

THE NIGHT I DIED

Analysis of a queer relationship going bad briefly interrupted by la petite mort

First published in NorthWord Literary Journal

PUBLISHED WORKS

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

How a mother and daughter become estranged without past resentments


Published in Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood by Demeter Press

The journey out of early marriage and Mormonism as a queer mom.


Published in EXPONENT II:
a Mormon feminist literary journal

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